Tagged: Ethics

Forbes.com has taken down an article from its website due to a lack of disclosure by one of its writers, reports Politico’s Daniel Lippman. Lippman writes, “Forbes.com has taken down a post about the Pentagon’s...

Greg David, the former editor of Crain’s New York Business and a current columnist for the paper, writes about why he published Donald Trump’s obviously inflated net worth in the early 1990s. David writes,...

Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank has developed a close relationship with MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle, who co-anchors a business news show daily at 1 p.m., reports Khadeeja Safdar of The Wall Street Journal. Safdar reports, “The billionaire...

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a standards and ethics editor. This editor is the focal point for maintaining the high journalism standards of the global news staff of The Wall Street Journal and...

Capitol Forum, a Washington-based news service that focuses on mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and government contracts, has sued Bloomberg News alleging that the wire service is illegally using is content. In the lawsuit, Capitol...

A sponsored article on the Reuters website states that the Thai government has improved working conditions of seafood workers, a contradiction of the news service’s Pulitzer Prize-winning stories that found trafficking in the industry,...

The San Francisco Chronicle published a story about a fake press release stating that former PG&E CEO Geisha Williams was going to give her salary to victims of the wildfires before discovering it was...

Donald Trump and his then-attorney Michael Cohen pressured CNBC in 2014 to place the real-estate tycoon higher in its list of the country’s top business leaders after Cohen failed to manipulate the rankings in...

The Financial Times wrote a story about a fake annual letter to shareholders from Blackrock CEO Larry Fink, reports Meghan Morris of Business Insider. Morris writes, “Business media outlets, including the Financial Times, ran...

Kate Waldock from Georgetown University and Luigi Zingales at the University of Chicago of the Capitalisn’t podcast spoke to Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein about why business journalism is important to capitalism and how that relationship has...